10 political St. Patrick’s Day moments

Politicians have often used St. Patrick’s Day - which is on Sunday - as a reason to spread some Irish cheer and to stump for votes from the most common ancestral group in the U.S. Here are 10 memorable political St. Patrick’s Day moments.

President Barack Obama wasn’t the first Oval Office occupant to visit an Irish bar on March 17. President Reagan stopped in at Pat Troy’s Ireland’s Own in Alexandria, Va., in 1988, downing a pint of Harp.